What It Is and How It Affects Learning Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that affects an individual’s ability to understand and manipulate numbers. Often referred to as ‘math dyslexia,’ ...

A new study combines Large Language Models and behavioral mathematics to analyze human decision-making text data at scale.

What I remember is the reflex—an almost-automatic pivot to an external brain to help me locate my own train of thought. I ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on why the slow and steady approach can leave issues unresolved. When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders ...

Artificial intelligence is moving at a dizzying pace. It feels like every week brings a new AI tool, feature, or breakthrough, and nowhere is that evolution more obvious than ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

IPO mania has begun, and nothing kickstarts initial public offerings like spreadsheets flashing green to incite the crowd. SpaceX’s recent S-1 filing promoted an “actionable total addressable market” ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...